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Are you looking for helpful literature on Feldenkrais?
Here you will find a collection of exciting works recommended by our network.

Recommendations from the network

Feldenkrais, Moshé:

Awareness through movement: Health exercises for personal growth  Harper & Row, Publishers, New York Hagerstown, San Francisco London
The Elusive Obvious:   Cupertino, California: Meta Publications, 1981
The Case of Nora:      Body Awareness as Healing Thereapy  Harper & Row: Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1977
The Potent Self: A Guide to Spontaneity                      Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco 1985
The Master Moves  Cupertino, California: Meta Publications, 1984
Higher Judo (Groundwork)    New York and London: Frederick Warne 1952
Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning  International Universities Press, New York 1949

Books by some of Feldenkrais’s direct and indirect students

ALON, Ruthy:

Mindful spontaneity: Moving in Tune with Nature Prism Press 1990

GINSBURG, Carl:

The Intelligence of Moving Bodies A Somatic View of Life and Its ConsequencesAWAREing Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hanna, Thomas:

Somatics. Reawaking the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health.  Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, USA
The Body of LifeAlfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York, 1979, 1980

KRAUSS Jeremy:

Feldenkrais: The way to improve Movement and Personal Ability1993

Reese, Mark:

Moshé Feldenkrais. A Life in MovementReeseKress somatics Press, LLC 2015

SHAFARMAN Steven:

Awareness Heals: The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic HealthAddison-Wesley, Reading/Massachusetts 1997

Rywerant, Yochanan:

The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching by Handling  DA Information Services 1983
Corollary Discharge,The forgotten Link; Remarks on the Body – Mind Problem2008

Topics sent out/ Some related subject areas/ Personal accounts:

Alexander, Frederick Matthias:

The Resurrection of the Body The Alexander TechniqueEdward Maisel Shambhala Boston & London 1986

BIEL, Andrew:

Trail Guide to the Body A Hands-on Guide to Locating Muscles, Bones, and More  Books of Discovery 2019
Trail Guide to Movement: Building the Body in MotionBooks of Discovery 2023

Brooks, Charles V. M.:

Sensory Awareness: Rediscovery of Experiencing Through the Workshops of Charlotte SelverFelix Morrow Pub 1986

DAMASIO Antonio R.:

The Feeling of What Happens. Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness  Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1999
Descartes‘ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human BrainNew York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1994

Doidge, Norman:

Brain’s way of Healing Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity  Penguin Publishing Group 2016
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain SciencePenguin Publishing Group 2008

Eagleman, David

The Brain: The Story of YouCanongate Books 2015

Edelmann, Gerald

Bright Air Brilliant FireNew York: Basic Books, Inc., 1992

Goleman, Daniel:

Emotional IntelligenceHanser 1997

Grabher, Alfons

My Feldenkrais Book [2nd edition] – How to do somatic exercises, develop mindfulness, improve motor skills and feel your best: A companion for Feldenkrais group classesCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015

Halprin, Anna:

Movement Ritual.  1995
Dance As a Healing Art: Returning to Health Through Movement & Imagery: Returning to Health through Movement and ImageryLifeRhythm,U.S. 1999

Huxley, Aldous:

The Art of SeeingFlamingo, London 1994

Lurija, Alexander R

The Mind of the Mnemonist  Cambridge: Harward University Press, 1968
Man With a Shattered World Einführung in die Neuropsychologie  Cambridge: Harward University Press, 1972
The Working Brain Introduction  to NeuropsychologyPenguin Books, 1984

Myers, Thomas W.

Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists and Movement ProfessionalsElsevier Verlag München 2020

Nelson, Samuel H.:

Feldenkrais Method for Instrumentalists: A Guide to Awareness through Movement Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2021

Nestor, James:

Breath The New Science of a Lost Art Penguin Publishing Group 2021

Sacks, Oliver:

Awakening:  New York, E. P. Dutton, 1976
A Leg to Stand On  New York: Harper & Row, 1984
Making UP the Mind  New York Review of Books
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat  New York: Summit Books, 1970
Migräne  LA, CA: University of California Press, 1985
Neurology and the Soul  New York Review of Books
Seeing Voices A Journey into the World of the Deaf  Picador 2012
An Anthrapologist on Mars  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995
The Island oft he ColorblindNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997

Sankary, Tiffany:

Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of LearningMovement and Creativity Press 2014

Strauch, Ralph:

Reality Illusion: How You Make the World You ExperienceBARRYTOWN LTD 1989

Todd, Mabel:

The Thinking Body A Study of the balancing forces of dynamic manGestalt Journal Press 2008

Book list on the topic of toddlers

Blechschmidt, Erich

The Beginning of Human LifeNew York: Springer Verlag 1977

Fogel, Alan:

Developing Through Relationships: Origins of Communication, Self, and Culture  University of Chicago Press 1993
Infancy Infant, Family and SocietyWadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001

Thelen, E. ans Smith, Linda B.:

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and ActionMIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994

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